Juliet Vles

Juliet Vles is an European multidisciplinary artist, born in 1950 in the Netherlands, of Swiss-French nationality and actually living and working in Switzerland.
Essentially an abstract painter and sculptor, whose work is mainly to be found in arte povera and minimal art collections, her artistic interests also include installation work, drawing and digital painting.

The works of the Krypta series, half-painting half-sculpture, are geometrical constructions overlaid with painting, drawing and written panels incrusted, intarsia-like, into the supporting frame. The word «Krypta» (from Greek «hidden», «secret») stands for an artistic expression that does not seek to depict reality, nor even its abstraction, but the imago of an unconscious area of the mind not immediately accessible to analytical intelligence.

Formally, the hallmark of Vles’ artwork is the unusual combination of its sober, geometrical underlying structure and the multilayered, rough texture of the painted surface. Although often shown in exhibitions featuring Concret Art, her work owes more to the Support/Surface movement than to formal Constructivism.
In her recent work, the artist increasingly abandons the notion of "making images" and rather sees her wall s...

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS (selection) :
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2024 trans Cerebral Digital exhibition during the Brain Awareness Week, University of Basel CH
2021/22 FLECKEN
Zurzach, Switzerland
2019 October 30th
MYOPIC MASTERMIND
digital exhibition at the
12th Annual Reserach Day
of the Institurte of Mental Health and Neurological cience (MHeNs), University of Maastricht (NL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzso7zTWTo0&feature=youtu.be
2017 "transCerebral"
THE BERLIN SCHOOL OF
MIND AND BRAIN
digital exhibition of the
trans-Cerebral series
at the Brain Awareness Week
Humboldt University Berlin
https://www.hu-berlin.de/
http://vlesworks.monsite-orange.fr/actuel/index.html
www.baw.de
2016 "Hirngespinste" Digital projection of the transCerebral-series during BrainFair week at the ETH Zürich, CH, organised by the Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften Zürich (ZNZ) http://www.brainfair.uzh.ch/de.html, in collaboration with LifeScience Zürich (Dr. Isabel Klusman) http://www.lifescience-zurichevents.ch/index.php?id=23 or http://www.lifesciencezurich.ch/index.php?id=15&L=0
2014-15 KRYPTA
Château de Mons, Caussens (F)
21 septembre 2014 - 31 décembre 2015
TRANSCEREBRAL
Musée d’Histoire Naturelle / La Semai...